Calcified macroalgae are distributed in marine habitats from polar to tropical latitudes and
from intertidal shores to the deepest reaches of the euphotic zone. These algae play critical …

Management areas are used in marine spatial planning to conserve biodiversity of marine
ecosystems and to protect fish from fishing pressure. To evaluate the effectiveness of these …

The effective management of our marine ecosystems requires the capability to identify,
characterise and predict the distribution of benthic biological communities within the overall …

The most important groups of modern red calcareous algae are the Mg-calcite secreting
Corallinales and Sporolithales, and the aragonitic Peyssonneliales and Nemaliales. They …

The eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) is an isolated oceanic region exposed to extreme
oceanographic conditions, including low salinity, low pH, high temperatures during El Niño …

Water temperature has received considerable attention as steering factor for the genesis of
different types of marine carbonate sediments. However, parameters other than temperature …

Teichert S., Woelkerling W., Rüggeberg A., Wisshak M., Piepenburg D., Meyerhöfer M., Form
A., Büdenbender J. and Freiwald A. 2012. Rhodolith beds (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) and …

Coralline algae play important ecological roles throughout the photic zone of the world's
oceans. Recent studies have shown that attached-living coralline algae can contain records …

Few places in the world can claim such a diversity of species as the Gulf of California (Sea of
Cortez), with its 6,000 recorded animal species estimated to be half the number actually …

Crustose coralline algae (CCA) are important ecosystem engineers and carbonate
producers today and in the geological past. While there is an increasing number of …